net.sourceforge.cilib.pso.positionupdatestrategies
Interface NeighbourhoodBestUpdateStrategy

All Superinterfaces:

Cloneable, Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

IterationNeighbourhoodBestUpdateStrategy, MemoryNeighbourhoodBestUpdateStrategy

public interface NeighbourhoodBestUpdateStrategy
extends Serializable, Cloneable

Interface specifying the manner in which the neighbourhood best of the Entity is obtained.

Author:

Gary Pampara

Method Summary

NeighbourhoodBestUpdateStrategy	getClone() Create a cloned copy of the current object and return it.
Fitness	getSocialBestFitness(Entity entity) Get the social best fitness (neighbourhood best) of the given Entity.

Method Detail

getClone

NeighbourhoodBestUpdateStrategy getClone()

Create a cloned copy of the current object and return it. In general the created copy will be a deep copy of the provided instance. As a result this operation an be quite expensive if used incorrectly.

Specified by:

getClone in interface Cloneable

Returns:

An exact clone of the current object instance.

See Also:

Object.clone()

getSocialBestFitness

Fitness getSocialBestFitness(Entity entity)

Get the social best fitness (neighbourhood best) of the given Entity.

Parameters:

entity - The Entity to determine the social best fitness from.

Returns:

The social best (neighbourhood best) Fitness.